Microsoft’s reported $1 billion deal to buy Yammer isn’t done yet, but the move — despite what many see as a too-hefty price tag — could make sense. Pairing the Office with Yammer makes sense, as Forrester Research analyst Rob Koplowitz wrote in Forbes.

B is he battle for supremacy among Microsoft, IBM, SAP and Oracle still relevant — and has it scarred long-term relationships with customers The old guard are marrying off upstart competitors into their product portfolios.

An announcement about the Yammer roadmap, now part of the Microsoft family, was anticipated in the lead up to the SharePoint Conference 2012. The main points of the announcement are covered here: Microsoft Shines the Spotlight on the New SharePoint. No surprises that Yammer and the SharePoint & Office suite will work together more closely - this is API-based, through the Yammer Open Graph. Customers on an Enterprise Agreement with Microsoft (i.e.

If you are still trying to get your head around the deeper implications of the Yammer & SharePoint roadmap announcement , here is some further reading: Hold tight - its just a bump in the road. He still has questions he would like answered - for example: If you switch off the SharePoint Newsfeed and replace with Yammer, what happens to the actions and activity that drive the Newsfeed? What will win out of Yammer Groups and SharePoint Communities? What about Yammer?

Microsoft is relaunching its Bing Pulse audience engagement and market research service to make it clear that it reaches farther than the search engine. “It’s an engagement tool and a surveying tool,” said Microsoft technology and civil engagement director Dritan Nesho.

Yammer Events. Rewire How Information is Shared and Consumed in Your Organization with Yammer Groups. Yammer Groups provide a natural platform that allow you to share, learn and collaborate with the right colleagues in just a few basic steps. Yammer Events. yammer.

Yammer Events. Hall & Wilcox Launches Yammer Memorably: With Cupcakes, Contests and Education. An example of a really creative launch came to my attention, and I just had to get to know the company that made its own Yammer shirts (and sent me one!), and baked Yammer cupcakes. I caught up with Yammer champions Josephine Murfey and Chris Warburton at Hall & Wilcox, and this is what we talked about. MO: How did you discover Yammer? Yammer Events. MORE >>

With Microsoft’s billion-dollar acquisition of Yammer , it’s clear that even the stodgiest corners of the business world are starting to come to terms with the idea that social has arrived and organizations need to find ways to leverage personal networks in innovative ways. Bersin & Associates Bright Bullhorn Goodjob jobvite Josh Bersin Microsoft Path.to social recruiting TalentBin YammerMORE >>

The premise of these workplace-oriented social tools — things like Yammer, Socialcast and features and functions in IBM Sametime and Microsoft(msft) SharePoin t, is that they help workgroups and departments work together better, know where everyone is, and cut down on telephone and e-mail tag. Salesforce.com was early to the party with Chatter , and Microsoft has been pushing SharePoint as a vehicle for a social networking in a workplace context. MORE >>

file sharing file storage Google harvest IBM iOS Jive lotus connections MailChimp MicrosoftMicrosoft Outlook productivity apps Research in Motion sharefile social business socialtext SugarSync Yammer YouSendItMuch of business communication activity still happens in email, but in this day and age that presents a problem. MORE >>